A series about teenage girls in Westchester County, New York, where Campbell says day-to-day conflict and pressure is exacerbatedby “the mundaneness” of surburbia. “Our sheltered lives lend us to create our own chaos, finding ways to break the silence to feel as ifsomething is going on,” he writes. “Through all these ups and downs, our bond is strengthened.” Though, Campbell adds, the loomingprospect of college intensifies their desires to leave. “Everyone wants to start their lives, as if they haven’t already begun.”

FINE ART / PERSONAL WORK

Savannah College of Art and
Design

Tianraan Qin“Billboard”

A visual represenation of consumer culturein America, where the billboard becomesan icon. Qin’s long exposures serve twopurposes, erasing the specific content ofeach ad as well as providing the main lightsource in each setting, which, Qin explains,becomes an almost “holy” object, and “ ametaphor for the relationship betweenconsumerism and our daily life.”